The National Health Collaborative on Violence and Abuse (NHCVA), comprised of more than 30 national health professional organizations dedicated to addressing the health consequences of violence and abuse, held its annual meeting this month at the Center for Total Health. Brigid…

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) held its 43rd annual meeting on The Science of Violence: Causation, Mitigation, and Prevention on Monday, Oct. 21, 2013, in Washington, DC. The meeting served as a catalyst to bring attention to this issue. Mark…

October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and the statistics are sobering: In the United States alone, one in 4 women and one in 14 men – from all social, racial and economic backgrounds – will experience violence in an…